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Elizabeth Craft – Die-Cut Monkey in a Jeep

Hello! Today I am sharing another card featuring the Elizabeth Craft Designs Monkey die set. (My first post with this die set can be seen here.) This time I’ve put the monkey behind the wheel of a jeep. My eldest son loved anything related to vehicles as a kid (he still does!). Let’s take a look!

I die-cut the jeep from cardstock which I colored with Distress inks, along with brushed silver for the grill piece. I assembled the pieces with glue.
I die-cut the Elizabeth Crafts monkey from cardstock which I colored with Distress Oxide Vintage Photo and Memento Desert Sand (lighter parts). I used a circle punch to cut the mouth.
I assembled the monkey pieces with glue, knowing that I wanted the monkey to have his hands on the wheel of the jeep. It was a bit of a trick positioning everything so that the monkey’s eyes were visible, but at the same time the body of the monkey appears seated.
I die-cut the hat from the Safari Accessories set and added it to the monkey’s head.
I stamped the Technique Tuesday Monkey Business sentiment on to patterned paper (Stampin’ Up from last year) for the card base.
I added the monkey and jeep to the card base with foam adhesive.

The card measures a little bit more than 5 1/2″ square.

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Spellbinders/Fun Stampers Journey – Shark Week

Hello! Suns out, fins up! Today I am sharing two summer-themed cards created with the Shark Attack stamp set. I thought these would be fun for the 31st edition Shark Week, which kicks off July 28. I previously shared a card using this stamp set in this post.

On my first card, I stamped the shark image on an ink-blended background.

I blended Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide inks on white cardstock.
I stamped the shark image on to the panel with Archival ink.
I heat-embossed the sentiment on to black cardstock, which I cut with a circle die.
I popped the sentiment on to the center of the card base with foam adhesive.

For the second card, I stamped the shark image on to a white card base with shades of blue ink.

I started at the top of the panel stamping with Tumbled Glass Distress ink. Without moving the stamp, I overstamped the image with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink. (Prior to stamping the background, I ran a test. I stamped the image with dye ink, dye ink and then oxide, oxide only, and oxide with dye ink over. Of those four, I like the combination of first stamping with the dye ink and then stamping with the oxide image the best.)
I continued down the panel using the same system with Broken China, Salty Ocean, and Blueprint Sketch.
I heat-embossed the sentiment on to black cardstock, which I cut with a circle die. The circle is slightly smaller than the circle on the first card.
I popped the sentiment on to the center of the card base with foam adhesive.

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Penny Black – Watercolored Flower Teddy

Hello! Today I am sharing two cards showcasing the Penny Black “Flower Teddy” stamp set. I recently had some time to watercolor (during a power outage) and decided to tackle this image.

On the first card:

I stamped the image on Cold Press paper with VersaFine ink.
I used a variety of Distress Inks to color the image (I have three storage tins full of the mini pads), as well as Kuretake watercolors.
Once dry, I fussy cut the image.
I used patterned paper for the 4 1/2″ square card base to which I added a dry-embossed 4″ circle. I added the teddy bear image with foam adhesive.
I heat-embossed the sentiment and cut it with a banner die.

On the second card:

I stamped the image on Hot Press paper with VersaFine ink.
I colored the image with Distress Ink and Kuretake watercolors.
Once dry, I stamped the sentiment with VersaFine ink and cut the image, on which I had added a blue wash background, to 4″ square.
I added the watercolored panel to a 4 1/4″ square dry-embossed background.

Ideally I would be practicing watercolor, Zig market coloring, and/or Copic coloring on a weekly basis!

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Penny Black – Thank You Bunches

Hello! Today, I am sharing a garden-themed card created with Penny Black products. I’ve combined die-cut elements from the Penny Black “A Garden” set with a sentiment from “Special Sentiments.”

- I colored white cardstock with Distress Oxide inks and cut out the individual pieces.
- I assembled the pieces with glue.
- I stamped the sentiment on the card base and added Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink to the center of the panel.
- I adhered the shelves and the items on the shelves to the card.

With different colors, different arrangements, and a different sentiment (or even the same one), you could create a completely different card. I went bold with my colors, as teal and red are two of my favorite colors to use on cards.

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Spellbinders – Paul Antonio

Hello! Today, I am sharing projects created with supplies designed by Paul Antonio for Spellbinders.

My first two cards showcase the Thank You stamp.

This is a fun hand-lettered sentiment that lends itself to a variety of approaches. I chose dark cardstock on which to heat-emboss the sentiment; I chose background papers with the same colors.

For both CAS cards:

I heat-embossed the Thank You sentiment, which I cut with the largest die in the Classic Squares set.
I matted the sentiment with a 3 3/4″ square in white.
I added the sentiment to a card base covered with patterned paper, which was created digitally (Designer Digitals papers). The cards measure 4 1/2″ square.

On my next two cards, I used the Booklet Binding die set to create sentiment labels.

For both cards, I cut a background with the Lucky Clouds die.

On the first card, I heat-embossed a sentiment on Candy Apple cardstock and cut it with the smallest die in the Booklet Binding set. I added a bird cut with a die in the Robin and Rosy Mug set.

On the other card, I heat-embossed the Everyday Script sentiment on Whip Cream cardstock and cut it with one of the label dies in the Booklet Binding set. I used a larger die in the set to cut a label from Brush Gold cardstock as a mat. You can really see the edge detail in the gold label!

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